How to Draw Straight Lines for a Button

Video Transcript

"ROBYN LYMAN: This Robyn with Expert Village and manyhearts.com. I'm going to show you now how to start this drawing. It's really important in the beginning of the drawing that you have your lines real straight and that you mark them. What we're going to do is start in the center and put a cross in this and then put a cross over the cross on an "X." Now I'll show you how I'm going to do that right now. You have to kinda eyeball the paper. We already know where the center is, so I'm going to start from the top, work my way down. Now, you'll notice I'm left-handed. It doesn't matter if you're left- or right-handed. The procedure is the same. Besides, the Lord made everybody right-handed, only a few could overcome it. That's one of my favorite sayings. Now, I want to look and see here. I can see that this dimension is shorter on this side, so I want to extend that a little bit so I come up with a totally even cross on all four sides. You can kind of gauge it by looking at an angle this way. You can see this side is short. Now that I've got the cross, I'll split the difference between the two and draw it right down straight, like that. Now, come over to the other side and do the same. When you're first starting off, it's always good to draw it slow; that way, you get a pretty even tail. If you draw them fast, your drawing can get messed up. And you want to draw slow and straight as possible and get a straight line. So that's the first stage of making our drawing."